At least 2.5 million people in India are marooned after heavy monsoon rains lashed their villages, a government minister said.
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Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.
HEYET Net- AFP
A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus travelled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.
HEYET Net- Reuters
A suicide bomber detonated Wednesday afternoon his explosive-rigged car, targeting a US military convoy at Maliya crossroads of Mosul, at a spot near the location of another suicide attack that targeted a US military patrol earlier on Wednesday, reported a police source.
HEYET Net
12 persons were injured Wednesday in two separate roadside bombings in Baghdad.
Floodwaters raged through more than 1,000 villages unaccustomed to high water after a river in northeast India burst its banks, UNICEF India and government officials said Tuesday.
HEYET- Net- Agencies
The health ministry in the PA caretaker government has warned that the continued Israeli occupation authority's delay in opening the Gaza crossings would entail serious repercussions on lives of many patients.
HEYET Net- PIC
At least five people have been killed and 55 injured after a series of explosions at a chemical plant in southern China, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
HEYET Net- Agencies
A suicide bomber has struck at an Iraqi security checkpoint in the northern Diyala province, killing at least 28 people and wounding 42 others, police say.
Mountains of clothes donated to victims of China's devastating earthquake are being auctioned off, recycled into mops or left in warehouses because no-one wants them, state press reported Wednesday.
Riot police took up positions early Wednesday outside Thailand's main government compound, as authorities tried to negotiate an end to protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign.
Protesters who stormed Thailand's Government House, a TV station and key ministries went too far in their bid to oust the administration, newspapers said on Wednesday, suggesting the movement has lost public support.
The casualties resulting from suicide bombing at Jalawlaa district on Tuesday morning reached to 25 people dead and 45 wounded, according to a recent report.
A suicide bomber had detonated the explosive vest amid a crowd of civilians at the civil status department in Jalawlaa district of eastern Diyala province.
The increasing numbers of suicide bombers throughout in Iraq shows the brutal and vicious policy of the occupation aiming to divide the society spreading terror and chaos.
As I said before the (un)controlled explosion in Mosul done by the Americans but because it went wrong western media reported that it was a terrorists attack.
Here is a video clip shows eyewitnesses, residents of Zndjeli area tell their story to an Iraqi government official.
Translation
Eyewitness: they took the weapons only [not the explosions] and put it in their vehicles, they timed the explosion and runaway to the nearby streets, my family asked the American: It will be a big explosion, it is better if we leave our houses.
He answered: No, it is not a big explosion, just leave the windows open and sit beside the walls, it will be alright. Later the houses fell on our heads
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